docs/manual: add _PATCH_DEPENDENCIES

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>

diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
index 1aa6def85de4c57cceb689c40f4374b62c94cd1d..8cf6bb6c4eafa113d8ec4ad29de4005d4d85e3a4 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
@@ -308,6 +308,15 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) :
   a similar way, +HOST_LIBFOO_DEPENDENCIES+ lists the dependencies for
   the current host package.
 
+* +LIBFOO_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES+ lists the dependencies (in terms of
+  package name) that are required for the current package to be
+  patched. These dependencies are guaranteed to be extracted and
+  patched before the current package is patched. In a similar way,
+  +HOST_LIBFOO_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES+ lists the dependencies for the
+  current host package.
+  This is seldom used; usually, +LIBFOO_DEPENDENCIES+ is what you
+  really want to use.
+
 * +LIBFOO_PROVIDES+ lists all the virtual packages +libfoo+ is an
   implementation of. See xref:virtual-package-tutorial[].